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C Desolate C Crazed C
Emasculated C. Confused C. Enfeebled C. Corked C. Unsavoury C. Whore-hunting C. Transparent C. Overthrown C. Deteriorated C. Vile C. Boulted C. Chill C. Antedated C. Trod under C. Scrupulous C. Chopped C. Desolate C. Crazed C. Pinked C. Declining C. Tasteless C. Cup-glassified
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

cold dish came crabs chickens
After the cold dish came crabs, chickens, and asparagus, along with glasses of Malaga and of Hungarian wine; all ate, drank, and were silent.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Cheap dirt cheap Cheap cried
Cheap, dirt cheap!' 'Cheap!' cried a shrill voice in Mr. Bumble's ear: 'you would have been dear at any price; and dear enough I paid for you, Lord above knows that!'
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

compel drive counteract check constrain
SYN: Restrain, inhibit, impel, compel, drive, counteract, check, constrain, force, confine, intimidate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Chapot de Charencey Chasseigne Chauvin
The roll-call verified the presence of two hundred and twenty Representatives, whose names were as follows:— Le Duc de Luynes, d'Andigné de la Chasse, Antony Thouret, Arène, Audren de Kerdrel (Ille-et-Vilaine), Audren de Kerdrel (Morbihan), de Balzac, Barchou de Penhoen, Barillon, O. Barrot, Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, Quentin Bauchard, G. deBeaumont, Béchard, Behaghel, de Belèvze, Benoist-d'Azy, de Benardy, Berryer, de Berset, Basse, Betting de Lancastel, Blavoyer, Bocher, Boissié, de Botmillan, Bouvatier, le Duc de Broglie, de la Broise, de Bryas, Buffet, Caillet du Tertre, Callet, Camus de la Guibourgère, Canet, de Castillon, de Cazalis, Admiral Cécile, Chambolle, Chamiot, Champannet, Chaper, Chapot, de Charencey, Chasseigne, Chauvin, Chazant, de Chazelles, Chegaray, Comte de Coislin, Colfavru, Colas de la Motte, Coquerel, de Corcelles, Cordier, Corne, Creton, Daguilhon, Pujol, Dahirel, Vicomte Dambray, Marquis de Dampierre, de Brotonne, de Fontaine, de Fontenay, Vicomte de Sèze, Desmars, de la Devansaye, Didier, Dieuleveult, Druet-Desvaux, A. Dubois, Dufaure, Dufougerais, Dufour, Dufournel, Marc Dufraisse, P. Duprat, Duvergier de Hauranne, Étienne, Vicomte de Falloux, de Faultrier, Faure (Rhône), Favreau, Ferre, des Ferrès, Vicomte de Flavigny, de Foblant, Frichon, Gain, Gasselin, Germonière, de Gicquiau, de Goulard, de Gouyon, de Grandville, de Grasset, Grelier-Dufougerais, Grévy, Grillon, Grimault, Gros, Guislier de la Tousche, Harscouët de Saint-Georges, Marquis d'Havrincourt, Hennequin, d'Hespel, Houel, Hovyn-Tranchère, Huot, Joret, Jouannet, de Kéranflech, de Kératry, de Kéridec, de Kermazec, de Kersauron Penendreff, Lèo de Laborde, Laboulie, Lacave, Oscar Lafayette, Lafosse, Lagarde, Lagrenée Laimé, Lainé, Comte Lanjuinais, Larabit, de Larcy, J. de Lasteyrie, Latrade, Laureau, Laurenceau, General Marquis de Lauriston, de Laussat, Lefebvre de Grosriez, Legrand, Legros-Desvaux, Lemaire, Emile Leroux, Lespérut, de l'Espinoy, Lherbette, de Linsaval, de Luppé, Maréchal, Martin de Villers, Maze-Saunay, Mèze, Arnauld de Melun, Anatole de Melun, Merentié, Michaud, Mispoulet, Monet, Duc de Montebello, de Montigny, Moulin, Murat-Sistrière, Alfred Nettement, d'Olivier, General Oudinot, Duc de Reggio, Paillat, Duparc, Passy, Emile Péan, Pécoul, Casimir Perier, Pidoux, Pigeon, de Piogé, Piscatory, Proa, Prudhomme, Querhoent, Randoing, Raudot, Raulin, de Ravinel, de Rémusat, Renaud, Rezal, Comte de Rességuier, Henri de Riancey, Rigal, de la Rochette, Rodat, de Roquefeuille des Rotours de Chaulieu, Rouget-Lafosse, Rouillé, Roux-Carbonel, Saint-Beuve, de Saint-Germain, General Comte de Saint-Priest, Salmon (Meuse), Marquis Sauvaire-Barthélemy, de Serré, Comte de Sesmaisons, Simonot, de Staplande, de Surville, Marquis de Talhouet, Talon, Tamisier, Thuriot de la Rosière, de Tinguy, Comte de Tocqueville, de la Tourette, Comte de Tréveneue, Mortimer-Ternaux, de Vatimesnil, Baron de Vandoeuvre, Vernhette (Hérault), Vernhette (Aveyron), Vézin, Vitet, Comte de Vogué.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

cârê dearly cârior cârius cârissimus
Adv. cârus , dear cârê , dearly cârior cârius cârissimus cârissimê Adj.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

cārē dearly cārior cārius cārissimus
Adv. cārus , dear cārē , dearly cārior cārius cārissimus cārissimē Adj.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

curried dressed cursit cursed cuttit
high ground by a river, brainch, branch, brainches, branches, braird, first sprouting of young grain, brak, break, brakfast, breakfast, brakin', breaking, brander, grating; gridiron; trestle, bra'ner, grating; gridiron; trestle, braw, beautiful; good; fine, also lovely (girl); handsome (boy) bray, press; squeeze; push, bree, brew; whisky; broth; gravy, breeks, breeches; trousers, breist, breast, breistie, little breast, diminutive breith, breath, bridle, modify, brither, brother, brithers, brothers; fellows, brocken, broken, brods, boards; (book covers), broo, brow, broom, shrub with bright yellow flowers, broonie, brownie; benevolent elf, broonies, brownies; benevolent elves, brose, water; soup; meal, broucht, brought, brunt, burned, buik, book, also Bible buiks, books, bun'le, bundle, burn, water; stream; brook, burnie, little stream, diminutive bursten, burst, buss, bush, butterflees, butterflies, buyin', buying, by ordinar', out of the ordinary; supernatural, byke, hive; swarm; crowd, byre, cowshed, byres, cowsheds, ca', call; name, ca'd, called, ca'in, calling, ca'in', calling, cairried, carried, cairries, carries, cairry, carry, cairryin', carrying, caitiff, coward; cowardly, more of an older English word than Scots caller, fresh; refreshing; cool, cam, came, cam', came, camna, did not come, canna, cannot, carena, do not care, carin', caring, carolled, sang (carols), cast, thrown off; discarded (clothes), casten, spoilt; worthless; thrown aside, catched, caught, caul', cold, cauld, cold, caup, small wooden bowl, caups, small wooden bowls, 'cause, because, caw, drive; impel; hammer, cawpable, capable, 'cep, except; but, 'cep', except; but, certie, of a truth; certainly, certy, of a truth; certainly, chaps, knocks; hammers; strikes; raps, chatterin', chattering, chaumer, chamber; room, cheek, side, cheemistry, chemistry, cheenge, change, cheenged, changed, cheengin', changing, cheerie, cheery, cheese, choose, chiel, child; young person, term of fondness or intimacy chield, child; young person, term of fondness or intimacy chop, shop; store, chopdoor, shop door, claes, clothes; dress, clan, group; class; coterie, clappers, door knockers; rattles, clean, altogether; entirely, also comely; shapely; empty; clean cleansin', cleansing, cled, clothed; clad, cleed, clothe; shelter, clim', climb, cloaset, (prayer) closet, cloods, clouds, cloot, clout; box (ear); beat; slap, also patch; mend closed, enclosed, closet, room; bedroom, coaties, children's coats or petticoats, cobblin', cobbling; shoemaking, cock-crawin', crowing of the cock, coffer, legacy of wealth; fortune, colliginer, college student, also college boy colloguin', associating; conspiring; plotting, Come awa' ben., Come on in., Come yer wa's in., Come on in., comena, do not come, comin', coming, concernt, concerned, condescendin', condescending, conduckit, conducted, conneckit, connected, consaive, conceive, considert, considered, consortit, consorted, contentit, contented, contrar', contrary, coo, cow, cooard, coward, cooards, cowards, coontenance, countenance, coorse, coarse, also course cottar, farm tenant; cottager, cottars, farm tenants; cottagers, couldna, could not, couples, rafters, coverin', covering, cowt, colt, crap o' the wa', natural shelf between wall and roof, cratur, creature, craturs, creatures, craw, crow; rook (types of birds), craws, crows, creepie, (three legged) stool, a child's chair creepin', creeping; crawling, creepit, crept; crawled, crook, hooked iron chain inside a chimney, for hanging cooking pots on cry, call; summon, cud, could, cudna, could not, cunnin', cunning, curriet, curried; dressed, cursit, cursed, cuttit, cut; harvested, cweentry, country, cwite, coat, dacency, decency, dacent, decent, dale, deal; fir- or pinewood plank, dammin', damming; condemning, damps, coal-pit gases, dang, knock; bang; drive, daud, blow; strike; abuse, daudit, buffeted; struck, dauner, stroll; saunter, daur, dare; challenge, daured, dared; challenged, daurin, daring; challenging, daurin', daring; challenging, daurna, dare not; do not dare, daursay, dare say, Dawvid, David, dearie, sweetheart; darling, deavt, deafened, dee, do, also die deed, died, also deed; indeed 'deed, indeed, dee'd, died, deein', doing, also dying deen, done, deene, done, dee't, do it, deevil, devil, deevilry, devilry, deevils, devils, defilin', defiling, deid, dead, deif, deaf, deil, devil, deils, devils, deith, death, delicht, delight, dementit, demented; mad; crazy, dene, done, denner, dinner, denner-time, dinner time, denyin', denying, dertin', darting, despisin', despising, deuk-quack,
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

continual dread continual cringing continual
To live in continual dread, continual cringing, continual fear of anything, be it loss of love, loss of money, loss of position or situation, is to take the readiest means to lose what we fear we shall."
— from In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Ralph Waldo Trine

Coy Domingo Creeks Crees Cuoq
Chippeways Choctaws Chorotegan language Clark, P. Dooyentate Clavigero, F.S. Codex, Aztec Codex, Chimalpopoca Cogolludo, D. Copway, George Couto de Magalhaes, Dr. Coy, Domingo Creeks Crees Cuoq, M. Cushing, F.H. Cusick, David Dakotas Delawares Denis, F. Diaz, B. D'Orbigny, A. Dorsey, J.O. Eskimo Field, T.W. Franca, Dr. E.F. Fuentes y Guzman Garcia, A. Gatschet, A.S. Gavarrete, Sr. Gomez, F. Guarani language Guarayos Gueegueence, The Hale, H. Hartt, C.F.
— from Aboriginal American Authors by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

canons deans chapters curates c
Arch-bishops, bishops, vicars, canons, deans, chapters, curates, &c., constitute a list of ecclesiastical dignitaries whose functions are not very easily defined and comprehended by a stranger.
— from The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, Adapted to the Wants of Young Americans Taking Their First Glimpses at the Old World by George H. Heffner

calamaria Dipsadomorphus Ceylonensis Cercaspis carinata
Trimesurus Ceylonensis, T. nigro-marginatus; Megæra Trigonocephala; Trigonocephalus hypnalis; Daboia elegans; Cylindrophis maculata; Aspidura brachyorrhos; Haplocercus Ceylonensis; Oligodon sublineatus; Cynophis Helena; Cyclophis calamaria; Dipsadomorphus Ceylonensis; Cercaspis carinata; Ixalus variabilis, I. Leucorhinus, I. poecilopleurus; Polypedates microtympanum, P. eques.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

commodities diamonds copper coffee cobalt
Agriculture - products: coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber, tea, quinine, cassava (tapioca), palm oil, bananas, root crops, corn, fruits; wood products Exports: total value : $1.47 billion (f.o.b., 1995 est.) commodities: diamonds, copper, coffee, cobalt, crude oil partners: Belgium, US, France, Germany, Italy, UK, Japan, South Africa Imports: total value: $1.25 billion (c.i.f., 1995 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

CQ DE Cabot Cabot Cabot
And so Myles ticked off into space the following message: CQ, CQ, CQ, DE, Cabot, Cabot, Cabot.
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley

chaplain dwelling continually commoranti continuo
Lord Scrope’s will has already told us of a chaplain dwelling continually ( commoranti continuo ) in the Church of St. Nicholas, Gloucester, and of an anchorite living in the parish church of Stamford.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

calculation designing compiling collections constructing
Reading, calculation, designing, compiling collections, constructing an "imaginary land," evoking imaginary playmates—these forms of play stand out prominently among the recreational interests of such children.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth


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